Electrify This

27/10/2025

Awkward for the anti EV crowd.

EV batteries are performing significantly better in the real world than most engineers could have hoped.

27/10/2025

Excess renewable energy generation did not trigger the blackout that struck Spain and Portugal in April 2025, according to an initial report from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.

27/10/2025

We are getting some critical new data on battery health from a large-scale study in Sweden, and it’s a massive...

27/10/2025

Walkable cities are a huge part of decarbonisation and staying healthy. Missing curb ramps are a barrier to that.

26/10/2025

25/10/2025

Shut up! 100,000 home batteries installed since July 1!

25/10/2025

11kW AC charging
200kW DC charging
Up to to 450km range
GTX: AWD
Pro: RWD
L: 4962mm (LWB)
L: 4712mm (SWB)
H: 1932mm (LWB)
H: 1924mm (SWB)
W: 1985mm (both)

*UPDATE*
According to The Driven: The ID. Buzz 5 seater Pro has a limited-time price cut of over $13,000 with drive-away prices now starting from $79,990, down from over $93,660 drive0away in Victoria, as listed on VW Australia’s website.

Similarly, the 7-seat Pro variant also gets over $12,000 off the standard drive-away price of $97,540 driveaway. That’s been reduced to $84,990 drive-away. Both vehicles are discounted until the end of 2025.

VW ID Buzz GTX with two tone red/silver paint: $129,680 driveway (NSW)

VW ID Pro SWB: from $94,634 drive away (NSW)
VW ID Pro LWB: from $98,545 drive away (NSW)

25/10/2025

ICE finished in China.

That’s because electric cars have become incredibly popular in China.

In 2020, one in eighteen new cars sold was electric.

By 2024, this had increased to one in two.

This growth has pushed down sales of internal combustion engine cars, which run mostly on petrol.

As you can see in the chart, sales of ICE cars peaked in 2017 and have declined since.

The world reached peak ICE car sales just one year later.

The displacement of petrol cars with electric ones is vital in decarbonizing transport.

The rise of electric vehicles in China means the IEA also expects oil demand to peak earlier than previously projected.

The strange thing is, there are people that think this is a passing fad, and some comment “EV is already finished”.

24/10/2025

Advertising works.

23/10/2025

Fact.

https://insideevs.com/news/561549/study-evs-smallest-fire-risk/

23/10/2025

11kW AC charging
200kW DC charging
Up to to 450km range
GTX: AWD
Pro: RWD
L: 4962mm (LWB)
L: 4712mm (SWB)
H: 1932mm (LWB)
H: 1924mm (SWB)
W: 1985mm (both)

*UPDATE*
According to The Driven: The ID. Buzz 5 seater Pro has a limited-time price cut of over $13,000 with drive-away prices now starting from $79,990, down from over $93,660 drive0away in Victoria, as listed on VW Australia’s website.

Similarly, the 7-seat Pro variant also gets over $12,000 off the standard drive-away price of $97,540 driveaway. That’s been reduced to $84,990 drive-away. Both vehicles are discounted until the end of 2025.

VW ID Buzz GTX with two tone red/silver paint: $129,680 driveway (NSW)

VW ID Pro SWB: from $94,634 drive away (NSW)
VW ID Pro LWB: from $98,545 drive away (NSW)

23/10/2025

Past 10 Years Were 10 Hottest Years in Recorded History, and Likely 10 Coldest Years of the Future

1 2024
2 2023
3 2016
4 2020
5 2019
6 2017
7 2015
8 2022
9 2018 (tied)
9 2021 (tied)

(cartoon by David Horsey)